Slingy
Well-known member
My approach to playing is that I try to sound like I know what I'm doing. 
F****** Hostile is the rawest song ever written, its how you intruduce someone to a riot \m/ and I agree with all this, I have no right to bag on any guitarist who is out there with adoring fans and making the benjimans every night, guitarists who hate on them are first of all jealous and either think they could do it better or just plain dont like the music which there is nothing wrong with but the way some people voice their opinions are just juvenile. On the other side of things I will just never understand how there are also some guys out there that devote all their playing to sound just like VH or SRV or Clapton, Eric Johnson is just about the only guy that can sound like whoever he wants, PLUS he still has his own styleSome of the "feel" players that you think are condescending to shredders may simply not have been exposed to the soulful side of shredding, or were possibly introduced to that material in the wrong way.
Example: To introduce an avid Gilmour fan to Pantera you don't want to start off with the first song they hear being F****** Hostile, you want to bring them into the genre with something that is closer to crossing over, maybe more along the lines of Cemetery Gates.
Having a positive attitude and positive outlook towards music is more important than playing with feel or shredding. Musicians slagging other musicians just plain old isn't cool. Being obtuse when discussing opinions isn't cool, either.
"......There has to be something else to this...That's why I did it. It felt to me like a case of incest, you know? A guitar player listens to other guitar players, the guitar player they listen to listens to a guitar player in their turn and so on. Jimi Hendrix listened to B.B. King. B.B. King listened to Robert Johnson, the blues guy. And there's nothing wrong with that, because that's how that thing evolved down the line. I just want to go somewhere else with it."
--Yngwie Malmsteen, Yngwie Malmsteen Interview (2008)
Regardless of how anyone feels about Yngwie's playing, the undeniable fact is he wrote possibly the worst song and lyrics in the history of rock/metal with "I Am A Viking".
Maybe not the worst thread ever, but people arguing about what kind of music is better seems unending. No offense meant to anyone.
Yep, Kanye West!Why does anyone's opinion ever need to be validated? Seems that someone must think little of their own opinion if they need someone else to agree with it.
Right now I'm listening to Taylor Swift, does anyone care?
Why does anyone's opinion ever need to be validated?
you'd have to ask dizzy. he's the one who seems to think my opinion is invalid unless i can play like paul gilbert. thats like saying i have to be in the nba to think that michael olowakandi was the worst #1 draft pick ever.